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The Lives of Michel Foucault

1993 book by David Macey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ125800940 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lives of Michel Foucault is a 1993 biography of French philosopher Michel Foucault by David Macey.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Lives of Michel Foucault” is 1993 book by David Macey. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lives, Michel and Foucault, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lives, Michel and Foucault is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1993 book by David Macey” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q125800940. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Lives of Michel Foucault”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Lives of Michel Foucault primary sources, The Lives of Michel Foucault archive and Lives research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Lives of Michel Foucault” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.